I have a feeling that the fingerprint reader is just going to be an easy way for jealous wives/girlfriends/husbands/boyfriends to access their significant other's phone while they are sleeping. Seems more of a gimmick than really useful. Other phones have had it in the past and it didn't really take off because the scan can be flakey so it ends up being slower than entering a PIN.

I can use my Lumia with gloves on so I can unlock it with a PIN. A fingerprint read will never work with gloves on.

There is also no way the 5S camera can compare to the 1020 so comparing these two phones is a little pointless. One is a camera phone and the other is a phone with a camera.

Going off at a tangent for a moment - want to hear a (non) funny story about fingerprinting at the border?

One of my friends was returning to the US after a trip home to England. Like me, she's an expat Brit with a Green Card and has lived in this country for 13 years. Even though she's a Green Card holder, she gets finger printed at the border each time. As sometimes happens, the machine wasn't reading her fingerprints properly - so the immigration officer said to her that she had one more attempt and if it didn't work, then they would refuse her entry. Never mind that it was a technology breakdown, as far as the officer was concerned, it was her fault because their system was unable to read her fingerprints. Scary enough if you're just visiting, but if all you are doing is trying to return home, to the place where you moved your whole life 13 years ago, where you own a house and have a family then it's even worse.It does make me wonder what would have actually happened if the final attempt had failed - I'm sure common sense would have prevailed, but some of those Immigration officers are definitely on a power trip and it wouldn't have surprised me if she hadn't been detained for a few hours - or worse...

@spivonious: They do that for any non-US citizen entering the US, not for US citizens. It's supposed to protect against terrorists somehow I suppose. I don't think it accomplishes much.

Of course, when I applied for my work visa for the US I also had to have my fingerprints taken, and then when I was called back to the counter five minutes later for my visa interview (which lasted all of 2 minutes) they verified the prints again. Just in case I had swapped places with my identical twin while inside the Consulate waiting room, I guess.

@spivonious: They do that for any non-US citizen entering the US, not for US citizens. It's supposed to protect against terrorists somehow I suppose. I don't think it accomplishes much.

Of course, when I applied for my work visa for the US I also had to have my fingerprints taken, and then when I was called back to the counter five minutes later for my visa interview (which lasted all of 2 minutes) they verified the prints again. Just in case I had swapped places with my identical twin while inside the Consulate waiting room, I guess.

@cheong: The only problem with the oleophobic coating is that it's not as tough as bare gorilla glass. The phones that I've had with the stuff ended up with lots of little scratches from every day use. The ones without it have looked as good when they were retired as the day I go them.